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Reasons to be cheerful - 2020

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  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    RTBC is my old cassette deck came back from being repaired and serviced. I wanted to digitise several boxes of tapes I found last year but when I fired up the old deck it had died. Seems cassettes are having a bit of a fashion revival as the repairer was snowed under with requests. I sent it in back in January and just got it back. Perfect timing for an indoor job and a long trip down memory lane - one of the first tapes I played was J S Bach Organ Works (Toccata & Fugue in D minor) from 1971. It still sounded great!

    iTunes informs me that I have over 30 days of music already on my PC and my cassettes will easily add at least 10 more days worth. There are a couple of hundred LPs as well which should see me through almost any length of lockdown.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    President Mitterrand had ortolan for his last ever meal together with the equally repugnant foie gras.
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Ive kept an old video player because I have one video of my daughter as a toddler doing teddy bear teddy bear touch your toes. I hope it hasn't degraded😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @BenCotto. I forgot to add that to my list.
    I have to concede that stargazy pie and tripe and onions are probably disgusting too.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Tripe and onions (well cooked) are one of my favourite dishes 😋 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'll take your word for it. A black pudding, however well made, would disgust some, but I like it😋
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    RTBC tonight is the strong spicy perfume from the nearby pittosporum is pouring through the ensuite window - heavenly! I like the small nearly black flowers as well.   
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    I've tried only frog's legs out of that lot and to quote another cliche, they tasted like chicken😊 @""Papi Jo"
    I can remember being on holiday in Ireland as a child. The children there would collect buckets of frogs ( buckets???. I seem to have misremembered that bit!) and sell them to some French bloke.

    Many moons ago we were on a camp site near Cheddar.  They had frozen frogs legs!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It can get pretty cold down there!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I read a lot about people having problems keeping distance from others when out walking.  We are fortunate as, although we live only 3 miles from the centre of a large city, we can go for a walk in the late afternoon (around 4pm generally) and hardly see anybody else out.  We do see a few people walking dogs, and I feel quite sorry for the dogs who obviously want to get a fuss from people but aren't allowed to.  You can't explain to them.
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